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    Background:

    • Longitudinal designs and repeated measures studies generate complex data.
    • Understanding individual variability within group trends is crucial in many research fields.
    • Traditional statistical methods may not adequately capture individual differences in growth or change patterns.

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    • To introduce and explain the application of nonlinear mixed-effects models.
    • To demonstrate the utility of these models for analyzing individual data trajectories.
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